Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

Time goes from present to past.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.